By Victor Curran Readers from all over the world come to Concord to visit the places where Alcott, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Emerson wrote books that defined American literature in the mid-1800s. How did such a concentration of talent end up in a quiet farming town of some 2,200 souls, a place with no seaport and…
The following is a history of Concord’s Robbins House. For more information see our Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) brochures and our website www.robbinshouse.org. The Robbins House, Inc.is both a nonprofit and an historic house inhabited by African descendants of slavery in Concord, Massachusetts, 1823-1870s. Our mission reveals early African American history of…
